Outside the Beltway

In less than two weeks, much of the content of The New York Times will go behind a paywall.

Archaeologists may have found the lost city of Atlantis. And, no, not the one in the Bahamas.

Facebook limits accounts to those who say that they are at least 13 years old. Shockingly, some kids lie to get on the popular social network.

Google erects some much-needed defenses in the optimization arms race.

Did a unit in Afghanistan engage in an IO operation against U. S. senators?

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker did not campaign on the union-busting package he’s proposing now.

Should employers be allowed to ask for your Facebook login as a condition of employment?

IBM’s Watson computer crushed human competitors on Jeopardy. What does it mean?

Beck is now concerned about Google.

Rick Santorum is upset that a Google search for his name produces a string of unflattering material. You should be, too.

For many Ph.Ds, the Ed.D. represents the ticket to the administrative high life, the white flag to academic scholarship, and the tramp stamp of the compromising careerist.

The next-generation iPhone 5 is rumored to have a 4 inch screen and even a slide-out keypad.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 could be a Google killer. It could also kill the Web as we know it.

JCPenney used black hat SEO to game Google. But Google’s penalties are arguably just as bad. And what about HuffPo?

Why does Hermione Granger go to the library instead of just Googling it?

The events in Egypt have led some to ask if the mere act of cutting off access to the Internet is, in itself, an human rights violation.

Volokh Conspirator Stewart Baker wonders whether Jesse Ventura’s complaints about TSA groping making him a “wussy.”

Google no longer needs adult supervision.

Pedestrian fatalities are up. Experts blame Michelle Obama.

The iPrayer Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

A Michigan man faces five years in prison for reading his wife’s email.

Andrew Sullivan makes a rather bizarre charge offhandedly: “Who among the neocons would have thought that one of George W. Bush’s final legacies would be bringing pogroms, bombings and genocide to Christians in his new zone of freedom?”

Was John McCain’s place of birth as big an issue to the fringe left as Obama’s has been (and continues to be) to the fringe right?

Contrary to current conservative talking points, Net Neutrality is not a nefarious government scheme to takeover the Internet, but is aimed to address a real problem. Like most ideas that involve the government, though, it doesn’t really address the real source of the problem; not enough freedom

President Obama is supporting the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Is this the end of America?

So, Kodak is suing Shutterfly because it claims to have invented the idea of putting pictures on the Internet.

You can log in any time you like. But can you ever leave?

Dear New York Times: Your tireless efforts to make me stop reading you are having the desired effect.

A Federal Appeals Court in Ohio has handed down what could become a landmark ruling in the application of the 4th Amendment to the Internet.

Bernie Sanders took to the floor of the Senate yesterday to rail against President Obama’s tax cut deal. It was history in the making, but it’s not clear that it actually accomplished anything.

Viacom says a lower court ruling in favor of Google “would radically transform the functioning of the copyright system and severely impair, if not completely destroy, the value of many copyrighted creations.”

So, if Hispanics formed a political party, what do you think it should be called?

Meghan McCain doesn’t know what a “blue blood” is but doesn’t want to be called one.

A new round of Wikileaks documents is out, and it opens the door on diplomatic correspondence previously hidden from the public.

In an effort to combat illegal file sharing, the US Department of Homeland Security is seizing domain names.

Some on the right are beginning to realize that Sarah Palin’s popularity may cause a serious problem for the GOP in 2012.

Are the American people finally waking up to the absurdity of TSA security theater? One can only hope they are.

Only 46 percent of Americans know that Republicans will have a majority only in the House when the new Congress convenes in January.

Recklessness.

Lots of jobs that existed in recent memory — secretaries, travel agents, gas station attendants, cashiers — have been replaced by technology. The middle class may be disappearing with them.